New York Times White House correspondent Annie Karni attempted to mock President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening by claiming that “Jews don’t believe in heaven.”….

Trump said:

A second Holocaust survivor who is here tonight, Joshua Kaufman, was a prisoner at Dachau. He remembers watching through a hole in the wall of a cattle car as American soldiers rolled in with tanks. “To me,” Joshua recalls, “the American soldiers were proof that God exists, and they came down from the sky.” They came down from Heaven.

The last line was not in the president’s prepared text.

Karni seized on the remark, suggesting that Trump was ignorant, and perhaps insensitive to Jews:

Trump just ad-libbed "they came down from heaven" when quoting a Holocaust survivor watching American soldiers liberate Dachau. Jews don't believe in heaven.

This was sent to me by a reader: "While it’s true that the Hebrew Bible does not mention an afterlife, there is a complex eschatology that includes a very detailed map of the Jewish afterlife contained in rabbinic, kabbalistic and Hasidic literature."

Although Judaism believes in heaven, the Torah speaks very little about it. The Torah focuses less on how we get to heaven and considerably more on how to live our lives. U need to learn how to live yours or we won't be seeing U

It’s an odd thing, but many Jews promote the falsehood that Jewish dogma holds that there is nothing beyond this mortal life. (Not to pick on Woody Allen, but he provides a good example. In Allen’s film “Café Society”, one plot point involves a Jew who, believing death to be imminent, converts to Christianity because “The Jews don’t have an afterlife.”)